Events for July 22, 2024 › Movies

Jumping on the teenage bandwagon, Columbia Pictures produced this highly fictionalized version of the discovery of rock and roll. A big band manager (Johnston) gives up on jazz and goes looking for the next big thing… and he finds it in the form of Bill Haley and His Comets.

Despite the rise of rock’n’roll, Frank Sinatra was in the middle of a huge comeback in the mid-fifties and so it’s no surprise that Ol’ Blue Eyes would find success in music-filled movies again. Sinatra stars as a womanizer who falls for a beautiful chorus girl (Novak) while romancing a society dame (Hayworth) who can […]